Helm - Olympic Mess

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London-based experimentalist Luke Younger (a.k.a HELM) returns to PAN with ‘Olympic Mess’, a record born of destructive practice, competing desires, and troubled optimism.

Where his previous effort, 2014’s ‘The Hollow Organ,’ dealt in dense, distressed sonics, ‘Olympic Mess’ is Younger responding to a period spent engaged with loop-based industrial music, dub techno, and balearic disco. These musical references, all of which can induce hypnotic states and feelings of euphoria, inform ten evocative aural landscapes which unfurl over the course of an hour and act almost as a counterpoint to the turmoil that spawned them.

http://p-a-n.org/release/helm-olympic-mess-pan-63/

Another classic from PAN.

Bonus FACT mix: http://www.factmag.com/2015/02/23/fact-mix-484-helm/

great

Here's the titular track:

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Also love how he flipped the gender "roles" of an ASMR video for his track, "Strawberry Chapstick"; took the monologue from this:

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2K15 = year of ASMRwave?

Nice move on that ultra-feminine whisper bullshit